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2010 NCME Graduate Student Poster Session Call for Proposals System is Live
08/17/2009
The web site www.ncme.org/proposal/ is now accepting poster proposals.
The proposal submission system is now open for the NCME 2010 Graduate Student Poster Session. Details of the call are provided below.
The GSIC would also like to encourage all graduate students to volunteer as a reviewer of the poster proposals. Prospective graduate student reviewers can sign up to volunteer by registering with the submission system between August 17 and October 1, 2009.2010 NCME Graduate Student Poster Session:
A Call for Proposals
General Information
The Graduate Student Issues Committee (GSIC) is pleased to announce the forthcoming Graduate Student Poster Session at the annual meeting of the NCME to be held in Denver, CO from April 29 to May 3, 2010. The purpose of the poster session is to provide an opportunity for graduate students to share their work and receive feedback from both professionals and academic peers.
Graduate students who wish to participate are encouraged to submit a proposal to the GSIC. The committee is looking for proposals of completed research as well as work in progress. Work in progress does not necessarily have to be completed before the annual meeting. While NCME membership is not required to participate in the poster session, it is strongly encouraged. Both successful and unsuccessful applicants will receive notification by e-mail.
The Proposal
Proposals should be between 1,200 to a maximum of 1,500 words (excluding references). Authors must indicate the word count on the top right-hand corner of the first page of the proposal. Any proposals over the 1,500 word limit will NOT be considered for review. Each proposal should include the following about the research: objective(s), theoretical framework, methods, results (if available), and educational significance.
Proposals will be evaluated by several reviewers using a blind peer review process. The following criteria will be used to evaluate the research proposals: technical quality, relevance to practitioners, academics, and graduate students, potential contribution to the field, and professional articulation of the research problem.
You are allowed to submit multiple proposals to this poster session, but they should all be based on different research. You can only present one poster, no matter how many of your submissions are accepted. While you are allowed to work with your faculty on the research you submit, you are required to present the poster yourself.
Submission of the Proposal
The web site www.ncme.org/proposal/ is now accepting poster proposals. The web site will guide you through the submission process. You do not need to complete your submission at one time; you can save what you have already submitted, review it, and make changes to it over the submission period.
- Complete the required information fields on the poster proposal form on the NCME web site. The first author must be the graduate student who will be responsible for the poster and all associated correspondence. Be sure to complete a separate listing of any other authors’ names and affiliations, all typed as you would like them to appear in the program. If you already have a username and password from an NCME proposal in the regular sessions, you may use that login information to make your submission.
- Submit your poster title and proposal on the web site. Do not include information about authorship or institutional affiliation(s) in the proposal, so that the reviewer does not have access to any of this information. The proposal must include the word count and should include the sections mentioned above.
- Upload any formulas, graphs, or tables following the submission form.
- Submit the proposal by the deadline of October 1, 2009.
The submitting author will receive an e-mail acknowledging receipt of the submission.
VERY IMPORTANT!
You are not allowed to present the same research at both NCME and AERA sessions, or at different NCME sessions. In other words, you have only one chance to have a particular research project evaluated at AERA and NCME. If you have already submitted your research to AERA or NCME for a poster or paper session, do not send it in to the GSIC poster session.
If you have any questions, please e-mail Mary Roduta Roberts at ncmegrads@gmail.com.
Note: All applicants will be notified of decisions in December 2009.
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